Identifications: * Yuppies/VCRs/Three Mile Island * Yuppies: young‚ urban professionals who wore ostentatious gear such Rolex watches or BMW cars. they came to symbolize the increased pursuit of wealth and materialism of Americans in the 1980s‚ represented decade of greed‚ stopped being radical‚ worried about weight. * VCRs: video cassette recorders became popular in the late 70’s that allowed viewers to tape and view later their favorite programs and to rent movies on cassette
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The Carter/Reagan Doctrine‚ named after the Presidents who endorsed it‚ led to a build up of United States forces in the Persian Gulf to protect our interest in oil. It has cost tax payers fifty billion dollars per year to maintain readiness to intervene; in addition to the sacrifice of American blood shed by soldiers who fought to protect that interest. The Carter/Reagan Doctrine was a good temporary plan‚ but not a long term one. It
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How Has the Iranian Hostage Crisis Affected the United States? For most Americans‚ the story begins in 1979 with the Iranian Hostage Crisis‚ when a group of revolutionary university students took over the American Embassy in Tehran‚ Iran‚ and held 52 American diplomats‚ intelligence officers and Marines hostage for 444 days. But for most Iranians‚ and to fully understand the repercussions of this aforementioned event‚ the story begins almost three decades prior‚ in 1953. This was the year that
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inflation was at 12.5 percent and unemployment at 7.1 percent and these rates were still on the rise.[1] Coupled with an economy that was not growing‚ these rates pushed the United States into a recession. Due to the current situation President Jimmy Carter had put us in‚ Ronald Reagan was elected in a landslide victory and at 69 he was the oldest elected president. Reagan was faced with a task comparable to Franklin Roosevelt and his inaugural address needed to reestablish confidence in the American
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Film Critique of “The Hurricane” The movie‚ “The Hurricane” premiered in 1999 starring Denzel Washington and was directed by Jason Jewison. This film is based on a true story of Ruben “Hurricane” Carter. This film is based on a biography titled “Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter” that was written by James S. Hirsch (Jones‚ 2000). The story starts in the mid 60’s when racial prejudice was still very high‚ and many where looking to keep the black man “in his place”‚ including a
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This act took place amongst some of the most life changing social movements of the seventies. “The Carter immunization initiative captured the essence of everything Jimmy Carter believed about government and its appropriate place in the American health care system.” Public funding for vaccinations increased in the post-war era. Not because the policy-makers realized that the vaccines could
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British soldiers shot and killed unarmed civil rights protestor in 1972‚ presenting themes of unity‚ ignorance and indifference. Meanwhile‚ Bob Dylan’s protest song Hurricane tells the story of the imprisonment of celebrated boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter‚ who was falsely accused of a triple murder in New Jersey‚ America during the mid 1960s. The song lyric explores themes of injustice‚ racism and discrimination‚ enlightening listeners about the corruption that swarmed the democratic American legal
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Amber Teething Necklace Infancy is one of the most fragile stages of human life. As infants begin to mature‚ one of their most common pains is when they begin teething. Teething is when the teeth of the infant start to form and begin to build up pressure as they start breaking through the skin of their gums causing intense pain to babie’s mouths. To sooth this pain‚ a company called Amber Artisans created a necklace that sooths their mouths as they chew on it. The necklaces are becoming more and
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character who could even bring his many of his enemies to like him. To these people‚ he was an “amiable dunce” who was a very nice person but did not understand politics. In 1980‚ Reagan was running for president against Democratic incumbent Jimmy Carter. Carter was ahead in polls up until October by a considerable margin‚ eight percentage points (Gallup). Then‚ following Reagan’s campaign and debate where he brought attention to unemployment‚ inflation‚ and a weakening military compared to the USSR (Noonan
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Deicide The crusted cliff top sighed empathetically in the burning embers of his fiery wake. He sat there‚ gazing upon the gentle planet that the deity’s society had named Earth. Lonely‚ he began to conjure a wheel of fire with his fingers to play with. Behind‚ hiding in the dry trees stood a human-like figure with blue eminence from its eyes. The place he lived in was Valhalla‚ the realm of the Gods‚ an intense dimension that was fashioned for the prosperity of higher beings. This forlorn god sitting
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